TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halliburton, Murphy 
TI  - Mudpacks and prozac: experiencing ayurvedic, biomedical, and religious healing
SN  - 9781598743999
U1  - 954.83 HAL/M 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - United Kingdom -- 
PB  - Routledge -- 
KW  - Cultural psychiatry
KW  - Healing Social aspects
KW  - Human mechanics
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Medicine Religious aspects
KW  - Ayurvedic
KW  - Mental Disorders
KW  - Therapy
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Mind-Body Relations
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - India
KW  - Kerala
KW  - History
N1  - 1. Introduction

2. Three therapies of South India

3. Lives and problems

4. Experienceing the world from body to Ātman

5. Cooling mudpacks: the aesthetic quality of therapy

6. Conclusion: pleasure, health and speed


N2  - People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies-from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures. He describes people's embodied experiences of therapies that range from soothing to frightening, and explores how enduring pleasure or pain affects healing. And through evocative portraits of patients in Kerala, India-a place of incredible cultural diversity that has become a Mecca for alternative medicine-Halliburton shows how sociopolitical changes around the globe may be limiting the ways in which people seek and experience health care, with negative effects on our quality of health and quality of life
ER  -